About the oligarchical character of the Areopagites, see Deinarchus cont. Demosthen. pp 46, 98.
[669] Plutarch, Kimon, c. 16; Themistoklês, c. 20.
[670] Plutarch, Periklês, c. 4-7., seq.
[671] Herodot. vi, 131.
[672] Plutarch, Reipub. Gerend. Præcept. p. 812; Periklês, c. 5, 6, 7.
[673] Plato, Phædrus, c. 54, p. 270; Plutarch, Periklês, c. 8; Xenoph. Memor. i, 2, 46.
[674] Plutarch, Periklês, c. 9, 16; Kimon, c. 10; Reipubl. Gerend. Præcept. p. 818.
[675] The personal intercourse between Periklês and Protagoras is attested by the interesting fragment of the latter which we find in Plutarch, Consolat. ad Apollonium, c. 33, p. 119.
[676] Aristophan. Nubes, 972, 1000, seq. and Ranæ, 1071.
[677] Plutarch, Kimon, c. 10; Ælian, V. H. ii, 43; xi, 9.